A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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One and God make a majority.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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